The Asian Lady In Pete Hoekstra’s Ad Was Named ‘Yellow Girl’

[kpete]

The image of the "Chinese" girl in the video, who speaks American-accented English, is labelled as ... well, see for yourself:



Now, in context, they could have been referring to the color of her shirt, as seen in the picture below. Perhaps. Although in that case "orange girl" is the term that might occur to most people. (As illustrated by comparison with the actually yellow lettering in front of her.)

I suppose it's as if you were using a picture of Colin Powell or President Obama wearing a black shirt. If you were producing one of these ads, by the same logic you could just label it "black boy," right? I mean, why not?

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/02/this-is-so-classy-yellow-girl/252685/

[aquart]

1. Jaw on floor.

Are there seriously no Asians in that state?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. None that are Republican

Not any more ...



Hoekstra's playing to a basic kind of Republican.
You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons

[justiceischeap]

2. Wow, that's just friggin' blatant... nt

[HughBeaumont]

3. Lose dog whistle, go directly to P.A. System.

Top shelf, Republicans. Top shelf.

[obamanut2012]

4. omg

[zbdent]

5. I was at a function where the speaker was talking about terms for races, and he said

"Have you ever seen a YELLOW person? A BLACK person? A RED person? A WHITE person?"

At the white person remark, I spoke up ... "David Bowie?"

the speaker cracked up.

(I couldn't remember the pale guy from St. Elsewhere)

[zbdent]

21. yeah, that's him ....

took as long this time as then to remember the name.

thx ...

[Blappy]

6. That ad

makes me want to Hoekstra up my lunch. Wrong on so many levels.

[hughee99]

7. Hoekstra knows html?

I can't believe when he was doing his own video and web production, he would be so insensitive.

[SidDithers]

8. I don't know if it's changed, or if it's a different element I'm looking at...

but it's "yellowshirtgirl" now.



Maybe some webhead got their head out of their ass over at Hoekstra HQ and changed it.

Doesn't make the video or website any less offenseive, tho.

http://www.debbiespenditnow.com/



Sid

[mainer]

9. Just saw a tweet that the actress isn't even Chinese, but may be Laotian American

It seems Hoekstra can't keep all those slanty-eyed Asians apart.

[Shandris]

10. Do you -really- think Jokestra lays eyes on his web code? REALLY?

I can't stand the guy but come on, this is downright silly. If he had put it in a flyer with those words underneath it, you know...something he would likely actually have LAID EYES on, then I'd be in agreement. But the underlying web code?! We're assuming Congressmen take the time to read up on source code for CSS elements?

[mainer]

11. Hoekstra says in interviews that actress's parents are "100% Chinese"

implying he does know all about her.

[Shandris]

17. Oh I get that.

I'm not saying one word, one way or another, about whether or not he knows her, or knows of her. What I'm saying is that he doesn't know web code, and it's silly to think that he, or any other Congressman, should be expected to have vetted the CSS tags in their web code.

I get that the guy is downright filthy, I'm just think that people are stretching to ludicrous proportions to make a single additional 'point' that most average people are going to snicker at. That doesn't strengthen any case against him imo.

Edit: Downthread I see a newly-linked video. Yes, -THAT- is a much better point than a CSS style tag. That's all I was saying, and I'll shut up now. Carry on!

[justiceischeap]

19. I code for a living (HTML/CSS) and if I put something in the code

that would impact on my company, my company (as well as I) would be held responsible. I work for an organization that is being used as a political football by the right, so you don't do ANYTHING that could somehow reflect back on your employer because that employer is going to be held responsible.

[d_r]

16. so, are you Chinese or Japanese?

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="

" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[Boombaby]

12. Where's the girl from?

Ohio? Wisconsin?

[mainer]

15. Don't know where she's from, but there's this...

She immediately struck me as not Chinese, but looks more like southeast asian.

http://www.emptywheel.net/2012/02/06/pete-hoekstra-mocks-his-asian-american-neighbors/

[mainer]

18. Are GOP men terrified of scary Asian women?

They must be, if this is the most terrifying villain they could come up with for this POS ad.

Maybe we should send a tiger mom to beat up on Hoekstra.

[Zalatix]

20. Proof that truth is weirder than fiction!

His ancestors are all doing eternal facepalms in their graves.